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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Alain de Botton

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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Content Less Perhaps Play Practice Require Well
We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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